Robert Burns

Robert Burns

male, deceased (1796)
Robert Burns - known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and (in Scotland) simply as The Bard...
Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

male, deceased (1978)
Hugh MacDiarmid
Matthew Fitt

Matthew Fitt

male, 41 years old
Matthew Fitt is a Lowland Scots poet and novelist. He was born in 1968 in Dundee, Scotland. Previously writer-in-residence at Greater Pollok in...
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

male, 51 years old
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. He has also...
James Hogg

James Hogg

male, deceased (1835)
James Hogg (1770 - November 21, 1835) was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English.

Allan Ramsay

male, deceased (1758)
Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 - January 7, 1758) was a Scottish poet.
Robert Garioch

Robert Garioch

male, deceased (1981)
Robert Garioch Sutherland, (May 9 1909 - April 26 1981), was a Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots...

James Orr

male, deceased (1816)
James Orr (1770-1816) was a poet or rhyming weaver from the province of Ulster in Ireland also known as the "Bard of Ballycarry", who wrote in the...
Neil M. Gunn

Neil M. Gunn

male, deceased (1973)
Neil Miller Gunn (November 8, 1891 - January 15, 1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of...

Charles Murray

male, deceased (1941)
Charles Murray (September 27, 1864 - April 12, 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was born and raised in Alford in north...